Indicating, registering, and controlling device worked by an electric current.



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APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 11, 1910.

1,124,864. Patented Jan.12,1915.

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JOSEPH ERNEST COLAS, or PARIS, FRANCE.

INDICATING, REGISTERING, AND CONTROLLING DEVICE WORKED BY AN ELECTRIC CURRENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

Application filed January 11, 1910. Serial No. 537,545.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH ERNEST CoLAs, citizen of France, residing at Paris, France, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Indicating, Registering, and Controlling Devices Worked by an Electric Current, (for which I have filed a patent in France No. 398,465, bearing date January 13, 1909,) of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has for its object an electro-mechanical device which enables indicating signaling or registering apparatus, placed upon the locomotive or upon a car of the train, to be operated by means of induced currents produced by magneto-electric machines of any type.

According to the present invention the magneto-electric machine is mounted on the locomotive preferably, or on any car of the train, in such manner that its armature is forcibly rotated in one direction as a consequence of the encounter of a pendant lever, acting upon the said armature, with a proj ecting block arranged upon the track at any desired place, the said armature being rotated in the other direction by means of an antagonistic spring, which thus generates two electric currents of opposite direction which can be utilized in any suitable manner to actuate the apparatus to be utilized. In addition the induced currents produced as described above, can, in accordance with the device which forms the subject matter of the present invention, be delivered, or intercepted, by means of a circuit-breaker, also mounted on the locomotive or on any car of the train, the said circuit-breaker being controlled by a pendant lever and a projecting block arranged upon the track, in such a position, in relation to the projecting block causing the operation of the magneto, that the current produced by this latter is only distributed at suitable moments to the apparatus to be utilized.

Although the circuitbreaker specified above does not constitute an indispensable element of the device which forms the subject matter of the present invention, it 1s evident that it permits of obtaining a coefficient of safety thanks to which if any obstacle produces the movement of the armature of the magneto at any point not correspondlng to one of the points determined upon for the operation of the apparatus utilizing the electric current thus produced, this apparatus does not operate, the circuitbreaker not having been placed in a position suitable for this operation. Figure 1 is a view of the current generatlng portion of my device, and Fig. 2 is a view showing the relation of the circuit breaker to the generator. Fig. 3 is a diagran atic View of the entire system arranged upon the chassis of the locomotive, parts being omitted.

The same numerals indicate like parts in all the figures.

In these figures, 1, designates the magnetoelectric machine, and 2 the magnets of the said machine, which is mounted on the chassisLof thelocomotive. On the shaft3 of the armature is keyed an elbow lever 41, one arm 6 of which is controlled by a spring 5 fixed at its one end to the extremity of the said arm 6, and at its opposite end to a fixed point 7. The other arm of the lever 4 carries a roller 8, which is mounted on an axis 9, and which is designed to coact with a cam 10, keyed to an axis 11 furnished with a lever 12. The cam 10 is controlled by two draw springs 13 and 14, fixed, respectively,

The terminal 19 of the collector 20.of the magneto is connected by a conductor 21 to j the brush 22 of a commutator constituted by a disk or sector 23 keyed on a shaft 24: suitably mounted on the chassis L of the 1000- motive, in order to be able to oscillate under the action of an oscillating lever 25 keyed on the said shaft A. This disk carries an insu lating sector 26, which is normally in contact with the brush 22, and a conducting sector 27 which is always in contact with a brush. 28. The disk 23 is controlled by two causes a displacement through an angle 8 draw springs 29, 30, fixed at one of their ends to the saiddisk at 31 and 32,-and-at the other of their ends to a fixed point 33. The brush 28 is connected by a conductor to the apparatus 35 which is to be operated, and the lever 25 co-acts with a striker or stud 36 placed on the track V at apoint corresponding to the moment when the said apparatus should come into operation by means of the current produced at the same moment by the magneto-electric machine 1. It will be seen that by this mode. of construction upon. the lever 12 encountering the striker or stud 18, the cam 10 -will turn through a certain angle (E, and it is easyto [foresee that the respective arrangements or the lever and striker can be .so determined that this angle 00 rotates the cam 10 to such a degree as to raise the roller 8 sufiiciently to make it bear on the rise of the said cam. The displacement of the roller 8 naturally of the arm 6 of the lever 1, and consequently the tightening of thespring, as Well as a displacement of the armature of magneto.

When the lever 12 is released from the striker or stud 18, the cam returns, under the influence of thesprings 13, 14, to'the normal position shown on the drawings,that is to say to a position in which it presents its hollow part to the roller 8, whereupon the latter immediately returns to its normal position, thus influencing, through the lever 1, the armature of the magneto, and effectsuch that it acts upon the pendant 25 a little vprovements are applicable either to apparation, that is "to say whether the vehicle moves in the direction shown bythe arrow D, or in the opposite direction.

As may be seen, in the particular case-of the working of railways, the present imtus placed on the vehicles and-designed to register or to 1ndicate various peculiarities of the road, or to produce at predetermined 1,124,,see

points of the journeypredetermined actions onizthe vehicles, .such as applying the brakes.

.. They. are also applicable to apparatus placed on the line to register the passing of a vehicle, or to 1ndicate that it occupied a certam place along the line; such is the case,

for instance, with disks, semaphores, blocksystems,etc.,the autcmat1cwork1ng and disengagement of which Wlll be very much 11nproved by the application thereto of the present invention. The application of these scribed my invention, what- I claimis:

1. In.an-electro-mechanical' device for operatlng, by means of-lnduced currents, electrlc apparatus placed on the locomotive of a train, the combination of a magneto-electriomachine placed upon the locomotive, in order to furnish the currents operating the said apparatus; projections disposed at determinedpoints along the. track; apendent lever adapted to engage said projections and be rocked 'therebyas the locomotive passes the projections; an armature lever. keyed to the armature shaft of the magneto and adapted to be moved in one direction by the pendent lever whereby the armature is turned in one direction; and a retractor for causingthe armature to turn in the opposite direction. for. producing said induced cur rents.

2. In an.electro-mechanical device for op- .erating,.by means of induced currents, electrioapparatnseplaced on the locomotive of a train, the combination of a.magneto-elec tricmachine placed upon thelocomotive, in

order to-furnish the currents operating the said apparatus, pro ectionsdisposed at determined points along thev track,.a pendent ,lever adaptedto engage saldpro ections and be rocked thereby as the locomotive passes the pro ections; an armature'lever keyed to the. armature shaft of the magneto and adapted tohemoved-in one direction by the pendent lever -whereby the armature is turned in one direction; a retractor for causing the armature to turn in the opposite directionfor producing said induced currents conductors forming a circuit between Fsaid -magneto electric machine and apparatus to be operated by the-currents generated by the magneto; a commutator in said circuit for closing the. same; a pendent lever-.adapted when rocked to operate said commutator and add1t1onal pro ections arranged alon the track, for'rocking-said last-named; lever as the tram; passes, the relatlve position betweenithe first: and lastnamed projections being such that current is induced and said circuit closed at the name to this specification in the presence of same time,dwhereby current can reach and two subscribing Witnesses. operate sai apparatus only at the required instant and not when the magneto might JOSEPHERNEST OOLAS' 5 be accidentally operated by any obstacle Witnesses:

Whatever placed upon the track. J ULES FAYOTTET, In testimony whereof I have signed my EUGENE PIOHON.

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